A characteristic eigenfunction for minimal hypersurfaces in space forms

DOI10.1007/BF01159966MaRDI QIDQ1113109zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors S. Markvorsen

Publication date 1989

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/174097

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motioneigenfunctionexplosioninduced Laplacianminimal submanifoldPoisson equationstrictly convex geodesic ball

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Review text

Let M be a complete hypersurface in a non-flat space form N. Using a generalization of a classical theorem due to Takahashi, we find an elementary function on M which is an eigenfunction corresponding to a specific eigenvalue precisely when M is a minimal submanifold of N. In the case of a flat ambient space N we recover a certain Poisson equation which similarly characterizes minimality of M in N [cf. the author, On the mean exit from a minimal submanifold, J. Differ. Geom. 29, No.1, 1-8 (1989; Zbl 0637.58033)]. Finally we show that if M is a minimal submanifold which is contained in a strictly convex geodesic ball in a space form N, then Brownian motion explodes on M.

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